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was cult. is eve. eve eve. colonizes saga had to be ending the last five so i bond ships with three hundred people on board has been towed to safety bottles break ups almost two weeks stranded all brush as far east coast. also reporting. the world's most notorious detention center at guantanamo bay has turned nine years old as part of obama's pledge to close it down the prison still holds almost two hundred inmates in legal

limbo. the white plague returns to great britain thousands of being diagnosed annually with tuberculosis with signs the infection is spreading beyond high risk groups into the population. good to have you with us around the clock around the world this is a live here in moscow so the ends in sight for the final ship that has been stuck off russia's far east coast more than three hundred crew members have endured a two week ordeal but i'm now being escorted through the frozen seas by two ice breakers that already led a smaller ship to safer waters one artie's is following progress joining us live now katrina so the ships are on the home straight to the less troubled waters now.

all we know that the ship rescue operation is proceeding smoothly though the ice breakers are still working hard to battle the top weather conditions that have made these missions so incredibly challenging and the transportation ministry of course that weather will be worsening throughout the day at the moment the admiral more carbon crossing the ties breakers are in the seal behold the larger of the two vessels that had got stuck in freezing waters off the far eastern coast of russia almost two weeks ago earlier it had already towed to the to a safer area to an area with thinner eyes the smaller of the two vessels at the refrigerator vessels. to fulfill the mission of the two ice breakers now need to pick up the supply ship get back to the richer rates and then all together how to open waters. however there recap all polities rescue mission had to precede it two days ago the cross-in eyes breaker reached this smaller of the two vessels with

some thirty five crewmembers on board to help the admiral mccarthy by his break already working at the same together they were trying to help the shapes get out of the icy trap to get through this incredibly thick ice normally it's up to two meters thick but these here because of the extremely freezing weather conditions are raising temperatures it's been like this sliced by and those layers of eyes have been on top of one another and at times they reached three to four meter the. layers to break the hottest of all has been for the largest the supply ship with some three hundred people on board the ship and the cargo together make up but the combined thirty two million dollars and the problem is that the supply ship is the wider than the i's breakers so for the eyes breakers had to join me in the effort to make up the channel similar tenuously in the eyes now as far as the crew of board the ships are concerned we're talking some four hundred thirty five people

there is no immediate danger to any of them as there is enough supplies and food for the moment no one the question is what's being said about why these john vessels were in the bay cheering such harsh conditions. well of course the top priority now is to get the sailors back home safely and alive but the transportation ministry and the federal agency had long in december warned sailors not to had to those waters because of the extremely bad weather conditions at the sea of a hole it's going to supply you in particular are a very difficult place for sailors to navigate and normally the eyes there reaches the top two to meet as they are but these here it's been even worse with the temperatures go in down to twenty seven seven degrees so. below zero and with northerly strong northerly winds and still many sailors headed to those waters and

got stranded stuck in those freezing waters been a very costly rescue open ration starting from december twenty ninth to january the third some thought bustles got stopped got stranded in the icy trap one of them managed to free itself on its own one trawler and another was freed by an ice breaker along with a research vessel and now to to say that the mission has been successfully fulfilled to its greatest need to finally. get to open waters these two vessels there are richer waiter and the supply ship while the supply ship bologna is carrying a part of the ten million dollars and it's sad that now it's out of action it's posting some thousand dollars a day now the local authorities are picking up the bill but once the sailors are home and dry of course somebody will have to pay out. all right. thanks very much indeed for that update live there in central moscow where we're coming to you from

the russian capital here twenty four hours a day more news to come for you this hour including the imported illness blighting britain. ashamed to me maybe because i come from sri lanka originally it was a disease of poverty and. tb is back and spreading through the u.k. the worst in western europe victims and doctors give us their story a little later here on r.t. . also still think progress following the u.s. and russia china is next in line to put a stealth bomber prototype into the air. but first a twenty first century's most infamous detention center still holding in despite president obama's election promise to get it closed guantanamo bay has become a trade mall for. human rights abuses since taking its first prisoner nine years ago. she hung up his reports cuba's far from happy at having america's dirty work

still carried out on its soil. its a place forever immortalized by images of torture known by its abbreviation get america's notorious detention facility in guantanamo bay cuba has been the source of world condemnation where abuse lack of legal recourse and indefinite detention is the norm it's also been the subject of decades of strife with cuban authorities who argue the forty five square mile military base violates cuban sovereignty and amounts to a military occupation the agreement under which the u.s. has to be on cuban soil the kuantan ammonia literary piece. from earlier earliest years of the twentieth century the plot amendment was imposed following the u.s. occupation of cuba after the spanish american war in one thousand nine hundred three was extracted from the bench you've been government under under threat under

duress and in clear contravention of international laws like the vienna convention the u.s. government threatened to continue its occupation of cuba unless cuban authorities agreed to lease the land for america's military base indefinitely or for as long as it paid the cubans it's nearly runs the rent check four thousand and eighty three dollars after the cuban revolution swept the island nation one nine hundred sixty it's revolutionary leader fidel castro cashed only one check and he insists it was an accident no checks have been cashed stands in protest no such she would never be signed today knows a treaty signed today would never be internationally recognized today the united states. will hunt down. and punish those responsible after nine eleven the bush administration swiftly turned its military base into a detention facility declassified documents show the u.s.

government used cuban soil to evade national and international law to interrogate terror suspects a strategy journalist pepe escobar argues is convenient you can't ship to cuba and never bring them to the u.s. mainland and they are going to live there for ever in a state of legal limbo most of the remaining one hundred seventy three prisoners at guantanamo bay have been detained there since the facility opened nine years ago awaiting trial. president obama recently signed away his right to bring detainees to u.s. soil making it unlikely that any of them will see a trial or freedom any time soon some argue the u.s. that violates cuba's sovereignty for this reason because this is the only latin american country for the past over this past fifty years has said you know then you straight to the eye of the american government or as they would say the american

empire a country cubans believe should give rights to its detainees and give back the land that's rightfully theirs to have half this r.t. washington d.c. . human rights activists have been holding a symbolic demonstration in front of the white house calling for him obey to close for good they wore black hoods an orange jumpsuit to represent its inmates and alters christine for example was there. they call themselves anti torture or with a group called witness against torture and made its yearly pilgrimage here to washington d.c. to bring attention to the fact that the detention facility at guantanamo bay is still open there are in fact one hundred seventy three men still detained there and they're represented by people here and jump you know they started the rally in front of the white house the home of u.s. president barack obama who started off his presidency with a pledge to close down the detention facility at guantanamo bay and yet two years

later it is still open and nearly fifty of those one hundred seventy three men inside are considered too dangerous to release but too difficult to prosecute so what that they stay until they die although they've come out here for the last several years there is a slight change this year to the prison uniform many here are wearing stickers with the image of private first class bradley manning he's accused of leaking those secret documents to whistleblower website wiki leaks he's being held in solitary confinement we hasn't been charged and a lot of people here say this is torture in the same way that the prisoners being held at guantanamo bay are also tortured reporting in washington christine for our team. morris davis who served as the chief prosecutor in the military commissions says president obama doesn't have enough to resist congress and keep

promises. but my policy for two years had been we would not use any evidence obtained by waterboarding or any of the other enhanced interrogation techniques were building the cases independent of anything the detainees said while they were being tortured suddenly i had new officials appointed above me that said look president bush said we don't torture and if he said we don't then who are you to question the president so you quickly here in washington you know congress you know over on capitol hill i think for years and years they were cowards and let the executive branch let the bush administration have their way now when president obama comes in and says he wants to close guantanamo suddenly they get a backbone on capitol hill and want to stop him it's been a real disappointment for me with the obama administration you know he said in january of two thousand and nine within one year will close guantanamo that was two years ago so he made some backbone as well to stand up to congress and tell him that he's the executive that is his decision and to wrap this problem up it's been

nine years which is just far too long so we're hypocrites you know to condemn others for upholding the rule of law maybe not the way we would but we've got one hundred seventy three people that we have to an opportunity to plead their case international investigators are due to deliver their final report on last april plane crash which killed the polish president lech kaczynski a ninety five others the document is expected to shed light on previously unknown facts and point to those responsible for the tragedy and also it will bring you full coverage later today. the tragedy which. the. president. will be. getting in the kaczynski plane crash. to come a little later for you here on r.t. known as the white plague in the nineteenth century england tuberculosis is now

increasingly a modern day menace for those living in the u.k. viewed as the capital of western europe the illness outbreak in britain has been connected to both poverty and immigration but as i discovered the infection is now spreading beyond those high risk groups. it's a fatal illness most common in the victorian era as a result of badly ventilated damp living conditions but tuberculosis is alive and kicking in twenty first century london a recent study shows tb has hit a thirty year high in the u.k. with more than nine thousand cases diagnosed annually the reasons for this increase is largely due to the number of people who are right in the u.k. with infection tb infection who usually would have acquired the disease because of the association of having lived in a country with a high incidence of tb. and also because of travel to to those countries britain

has become known as the tb capital of europe pull some of felt from tb alerts which aims to draw attention to the threat of tuberculosis thinks that's a bit strong but still it is the one country in western europe where the numbers are continuing to rise it can affect everybody but most commonly it affects people who are poor and that's to do with perils even when you. close proximity of liver poor immune systems and so on it's a shocking indictment of the way poor. people live in the u.k. particularly those who originally come from abroad but unlike in other countries where tb is a problem in the u.k. it's no longer limited to the poor or those with chaotic lifestyles stemming from drug or alcohol abuse or homelessness sharma pereira is a middle class journalist who's lived in the u.k. since childhood she was ill for five years we can tired with debilitating night

sweats before doctors finally diagnose tuberculosis deep in my heart i knew something was wrong i stopped working i stopped doing all the things that i normally do a movie of all of energy. but i've become this sort of rather tired grumpy middle aged woman doctors aren't sure where pereira picked up the illness but say she could just have been standing next to the wrong person on london's public transport network i was so ashamed because tb to me maybe because i come from sri lanka originally was a disease of poverty and it's. not deliberate but a lack of cleanliness a lack of hygiene in. it to me. it was consumption it was what mimi diaries of in law was it was what it was to do with sort of dampness it was d.h. lawrence it was not comfortable me in my nice little move west london home

pereira now has to take antibiotics for six months and will then be well statistically she's much more likely to take the whole course of treatment than someone poverty stricken or addicted to drugs or alcohol not finishing treatment leads to drug resistant tuberculosis already on the rise in the u.k. in the late one nine hundred eighty s. the us had a similar upsurge in cases of tuberculosis the way they solved that problem was by pumping vast sums of money into its ironically the u.k. is one of the world's lowered. foreign aid with huge investments in fighting abroad but. it's unclear whether the money will be available to stop the spread of the disease. or abbott's r.t. . just remind you can head online for updates and analysis and stories. and many others. for you to the no holds barred story

the first man in space fifty years after your. flight a british comedy group tells of the triumphs and turbulence in making history. and behind the scenes of the big . one of the greatest shows on earth makes its magic those stories and plenty of all this. portugal will try to raise much needed cash on the bond market on wednesday while trying to convince the world it doesn't need to solve its debt problems it's a critical period for the country at a time of year when governments raise crucial funds by getting investors to buy but it could come up quite

a price. to pay high interest rates with investors jittery over the country stability the prime minister says it won't need. major euro currency countries of france and germany want to plough money and that's because they're worried the debt crisis will spread to neighboring spain which is by far a larger economy and. destructive but financial advisor paulie's says a portugal rescue would solve the fundamental flaws in the euro zone concept. this is not in any kind a way a final solution for the european debt crisis it is just buying time for these countries so that hopefully they will be able to get control of their fiscal situation and the markets will start to to believe in them again that they're able to service their debt moving forward in reality what's happening is burden in this country with these countries a lot more debt to service and the jury is still out on whether they can actually

turn their fiscal position around over the next few years you can't save all the banks and save all the countries because at some point someone's got to fire or all which is the other option which we've been pursuing so far is that we just carry on printing money and everybody carry on printing money and we end up with hyperinflation and most currencies then become worthless so at some stage someone's got to fail but what we're doing is patching up patching up patrick up hoping that the issue's going to go away pushing the can further down the road now the europeans have to start thinking about a complete reform of the european structure well as we'll hear later this hour british your m.p. has been telling us that no matter how much the eurozone circles its wagons the prospects are bleak. it is extremely dangerous as we've seen with the euro to force such divergent nations together i think the tensions you create economic and

political opera fairly dangerous i think person i think the euro will collapse and soon i think it could be down really february could collapse you i mean really you cannot i saw the strange rate mechanism the forerunner to the euro you cannot buck the markets as mrs thatcher said at that time and affectively what's the e.u. is trying to do with this massive bailout package seven hundred fifty billion euros is to try and buck the markets but you can't do that you national governors never have enough money to actually out maneuver and out bid a bond markets or private markets they have more money available. and it's not going to work. china has confirmed as conducted a successful test flight of its new stealth fighter it is now the third country to put a stealth prototype into the air following on the heels of russia and the u.s.

but a technology strategy analyst told r.t. that china has a long way to go before it can boast having a next generation jet. normally every six following generation should be much g four in capabilities from the previous one it should be multi-functional multi-role their craft which is able to be called a sincere craft interceptor console so for the chinese machine we should probably call demonstrate of technology all brought prototypes because we already had it there were a show of both retail design. they had a prototypes which they used to work on sort of the call just but they never start serial production then there is think this chinese machine they are comparable to these demonstrators off technologies of design bureaus then the real current american the russian fuel generation aircraft. well time now to check out some

other world news headlines at this stage of the day a suicide bomb blast in afghanistan's capital kabul is left four dead and an unconfirmed number injured it's accurate said to have been riding a motorbike self up alongside a bus explosion happened close to the parliament building and offices run by foreign companies. and fourteen people have died a ninety year missing in australia's worst flooding for a century thousands of residents in brisbane and the capital queensland evacuated their homes as massive floods hit the central business district with water levels expected to reach their peak in the region by thursday many residents stocked up on food supplies and headed to emergency shelters. haiti is marking the one year anniversary of the massive earthquake that devastated the country over two hundred thousand people lost their lives and over a million are still homeless the country's president the ceremony which was held at the site of a mass grave on the island of former president u.s. president bill clinton attended the commemorations and took

a tour of the reconstruction part of which is over the sea. brings up today for the moment i'll be back one level up there about seven minutes from now next is the business news starts just after a couple of moments stay with us. hello and a very warm welcome time to get the latest from the world of business world prices have risen to around ninety dollars a barrel the highest for more than two years alex a court can assume that one analyst from. a father's shop price hike could happen in the coming weeks but it's likely to be short lived. there's

a chance. through the rally my continued and even. when we see a short term. spike to one hundred dollars per barrel. down to somewhere around nineteen you know maybe it isn't much and we. just don't think. this is playing well in the short term obviously could exporters. benefit from this but if you extend this beyond. three to six months the high prices are centrally a sort of net tax on all major all consuming conus. the ruble has jumped to a twenty two month high against the euro to a one year high for us this its target basket the currency was up maybe two percent against the euro in the fall strangely day in russia after the long new year

holiday analysts suggest local investors sobber patch eighteen money i mean can such that you have stopped prices will worsen the will was little changed against the dollar. it's not so much thought about the ruble was for the main. book i don't see why doron you're. so while one by one can speak away the door is going to be weakening at least the first quarter of this year on the back of the ruble bit and they're going to get stronger to the point where russian central bank upgraded to appreciate. well some people called thirty or even twenty and i am seventeen i was with benchmarks for the first three months. and russia is a place that totaled one point one percent in december with the overall price increase for the here his eight point eight percent that's the same as last year but it's slightly above the official forecast of eight and a half percent the government increased its production suring the record so. a hate wave

a drop force food prices higher. just look at the markets knowledge and stocks are high on holding big gains and wall street the high sign is up the best at the center of the make it is up point one percent in tokyo the games are limited by invest a concern is ahead of portugal's board auction buying swirl on the rise as well as brokerage stocks in hong kong high telecom and property stocks supporter from. and here in russia the markets closed in the blood on tuesday driven by metals and mining stocks and on the back of that stronger all the prices and gains in european markets there r.t.s. and my six climbed over a cent. and russian oil and gas majors that could have to gust close of the biggest gains on the license after it announced it was plying a fifty six percent stake in one of the country's largest airlines. producer meshal gave to coal prices rose to a two year high as heaven floods destructed mines and.